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The works have been recovered original facade of civil Baroque
They recently completed the restoration of the main facade of the house the horses came, carried out under the comprehensive rehabilitation project that is undergoing the property.
The actions taken have restored the original appearance of this mansion, dating from the late seventeenth century Baroque style and civil.
The City of Caravaca de la Cruz is executed the restoration of the house of the horses came with a budget of 290,000 euros, financed by aid "Leader" of the European Rural Development Fund.
In addition to the recovery of its two facades, the project has enabled the housing reform and the interior rooms, enabling a museum to display the history and evolution of the celebration of the horses came, temporary exhibition spaces and workshops .
The current facade was hidden behind a plaster and gypsum plaster painted in ocher.
Its original appearance is part of the civil Baroque, with the characteristics of the Region of Murcia.
The façade of rigging mixed with brick masonry piers revoked.
The building is divided into three levels (low, main floor and false under cover), following a very distinctive building type in this area.
There is also an underground chamber, for a winery, which still preserved the jars for fermentation and storage of wine.
The existing balconies on the first floor with its curved path and wrought iron, the other bars, the woodwork, the badge of sandstone, the shrine of the Virgin of the Immaculate, the plaque, and many details remain the taste of their splendid past.
The house belonged to the family Melgarejo Musso-Muñoz, whose coat of arms is on the main facade, the family later moving Girón.
He lived and died María Girón and Font de Mora, renowned character caravaqueña society of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who made an outstanding humanitarian and charitable work, in gratitude for which the town of Caravaca decided to perpetuate his memory in 1923, with the placement of a plaque paid for by public subscription, which still remains in its facade.
Housed in the old town of Caravaca, declared Historic preservation in 1985, and in particular on the street Gregorio Javier, one of the most important areas in the urban fabric of the city that the Church of the Saviour in west and where other stately homes rose belonging to noble families during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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